Thursday, November 17, 2005

What about Bob?

In the Federal City you've been blown and shown pityIn secret, for pieces of change. - Bob Dylan

It keeps happening. No matter how often Bob Woodward telegraphs his true heart, American liberals and their fabulists who still believe there's something like a separation of powers, and in some storied dragon slayer called WoodwardBernstein, find themselves crushed again beneath the weight of collapsed expectations.

Woodward dropped his Plame bombshell with precision. ("A Boon To Libby Defense?" reads today's CBS headline.) Democrats who may ask "What was he thinking?" either haven't paid much attention to Woodward for the past, oh, 30 years, or confuse the establishment Yalie-ONI vet with Robert Redford's white knight. He was never on our side, he was just played as one in the movies. And it's unconscionable that anyone should be surprised by Woodward anymore.

Perpetuating the myth of Woodward and Bernstein was fine by all sides. Americans in their waking dream-state could console themselves by their example, that if things got really bad, then they would be told so. And the conspiratocracy's enabling chattering class could say, as they have recently about 9/11, that there are Pulitzers to be won by investigative journalists who can prove the attacks were permitted to happen. That no nominations have been forthcoming is embraced as tautological evidence for the bogus character of "conspiracy theory." (Pulitzer nominations, of course, are reserved for shills such as Gerald Posner, who received one for Case Closed, while weightier works like John Newman's Oswald and the CIA and Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Much are fortunate to receive even limited distribution.)

The problem with dismantling Woodward's reputation - a process which he seems happy to oblige - is what comes next? Liberal bloggers are now championing Walter Pincus, the "CIA's house reporter" who worked for the agency in the Sixties and has been an asset ever since. Pincus was a major player in covering-up the CIA's crack-dealing, and in assassinating the professional character of reporter Gary Webb, after Webb's "Dark Alliance" exercise in truth-telling managed to find a rare toehold in the mainstream.

For the most part newspapers are money-sinks. They are not operated for profit so much as to manage opinion and dictate the parameters of respectable discourse. Perhaps we could say that Warren Buffett, former patron of Omaha's Larry King, actually is a Director of the Washington Post for the good of his health. Anyone who ascends as high as Woodward has within the machinery should be presumed to be part of the problem, just as anyone who falls as low as Bernstein fell following his 1977 Rolling Stone exposure of the CIA's subversion of the press in "Operation Mockingbird" must have done something right.

America has seen a lot of good journalists die prematurely in recent years. Typically they've worked independently, pursuing trails most editorial boards have decided to leave cold. But there's another kind of journalist sometimes spotted suspiciously close to crime scenes, especially those scenes which aren't officially called crimes.

Judith Miller for instance, who was the media contact for the doomed Dr David Kelly, and who was the recipient of his last email in which he bemoaned "dark actors playing games." JFK conspirator David Ferrie's last known visitor was Washington Post national security reporter George Lardner Jr. As Lisa Pease writes in The Assassinations, "Lardner claimed he left David Ferrie at 4 a.m. the day Garrison had decided to call Ferrie before the Grand Jury. There is no reason to suspect Lardner had a hand in Ferrie's death, but the coroner thought the body indictated an earlier death, and claimed 4 a.m. was the 'latest possible time' of his death." And investigator Edward J Epstein, who has long enjoyed a cozy accord with the CIA and argues for the cover story that Lee Harvey Oswald was a KGB agent, just happened to be the last person George De Mohrenschildt saw on Earth before apparently shooting himself in the mouth prior to an interview with Gaeton Fonzi of the Select House Committee on Assassinations.

And speaking of Webb, for what it's worth, in a recent interview, 9/11 whistleblower Indira Singh mentions she's been told by DEA sources that he was murdered. Singh also tells that her research into the terror economy is now encompassing child pornography and human trafficking. The three-part audio can be heard here, here and here.

Singh is a whistleblower with respect to Ptech and its implications for 9/11 complicity, and I think it needs to be said that when whistleblowers address broader issues, and move beyond the scope of their witness, their words assume a different aspect. She speaks instead as a researcher, one I believe to be on solid ground, but researchers must speak with a different authority than whistleblowers.

And here's something else that needs to be said: Indira Singh should not have to do this. We should not have to do this. But we have to. Because Bob Woodward, Walter Pincus and their peers aren't going to do it for us. There are no Pulitzer prizes awaiting the exposure of these crimes. There's just escaping with our lives.

It seems as if Woodward was further to the right than Nixon, who would be labeled a leftwing tree-hugger in today's political climate. I don't believe his cover story about meeting Felt in the corridors of the WH waiting to deliver papers.

I also saw him on Larry King recently discussing the toppling of the Saddam statue as if it really happened as presented in the corporate media. It was proven to be a propaganda stunt in "The Control Room" yet Woodward purposely maintains the "official story".

... it's comforting how Bob's wife just happens to work for the publishing company that puts out Vanity Fair, the magazine that published the I.D. of deep throat...

And while Bob did go to Yale like the Bush's, his secret society wasn't Skull & Bones, it was "Book & Snake". CIA head Porter Goss is also an alumni of B.& S.

btw, Warren Buffett owns the largest jet-pilot training company on the planet. Wasnt he having breakfast with George H.W. Bush at Offut AFB the morning of 9-11? Oh to have been there, watching the TV with Warren & George as a jet plows directly into the Berkshire-Hathaway offices...

Here is a brief listing of very suspicious deaths that I believe have NOT been given proper investigations:

1) Dr. David Kelly, WMD microbiologist who was quoted by Andrew Gilligan of the BBC that he wouldn't be surprised if he was 'found dead in the woods.' Dr. Kelly WAS found dead in the woods.

2) Gary Webb, who supposedly was working on a new expose on the underworld of black ops, who died of TWO gunshot wounds to the head. This is highly suspect, considering the likelihood of that happening (I don't care WHAT peak oil stooge Michael Ruppert has to say about it)

3) Hunter Thompson, who said in a 2003 interview where he likened the Bush administration to Nazis that he would be assassunated and it would be made to look like a suicide. He then conveniently committed 'suicide,' another double shot to the head thing.

Scooter Libby said that he would be proven innocent when all the facts came to light. Maybe he was right. It's beginning to look like his only crime was having a poor memory and spreading gossip. You perhaps need more rigorous intuition.

Thank you for bringing attention to the Indira Singh/Micheal Corbin interview. When I posted on the board about it last night, I had just been listening for two hours and was plexed on why I hadn't heard about it since the interview took place on Oct. 28th.

Quite a bombshell wasn't it? It's really getting out there now. The parapolitics aspect of it I mean.

What I'm wondering, is where in Northern California is Singh? And what is she researching up there that ties Bush directly? She dropped the Grove bomb and we all know what that means.Thanks again Jeff.

Scooter Libby is just a patsy, let's face it. The Valerie Plame affair is simply a smokescreen to divert attention away from the real scandal of this admininstration, namely, the murder of 3,000 citizens on 9/11, which was the precursor for the invasion of Iraq according to PNAC plans.

Nothing is going to come of this Plame thing. No one is going to jail. The Congress isn't even going to investigate this. The poll numbers don't mean anything either. In 08, the PTB will simply install another globalist shill in the White House, thus continuing where GW and company left off (Invasion of Iran? North Korea?).

Walter Pincus, a Washington Post reporter who testified in front of Prosecutor Fitzgerald's grand jury in the "Plamegate" case, has been held in contempt of court in a different but similar type of case.

The Post reporter, who is known for his access to good sources in the intelligence community, has refused to identify his source(s) in the Wen Ho Lee case. Mr. Lee, a nuclear physicist for the government at Los Alamos had been suspected of spying for China in the late 1990's. Anonymous government sources engaged in a campaign of leaks of incriminating information against Mr. Lee, who later pleaded guilty to one count of a much lesser charge.

Mr. Lee is suing the government over his treatment at the hands of federal authorities. Four other reporters have already been held in contempt in the Lee case: James Risen of the New York Times, H. Josef Hebert of the Associated Press, Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times and ABC News' Pierre Thomas, then reporting for CNN.

What this case has in common with the CIA leak case is that, in both cases, reporters are standing up for upholding the confidentiality of sources who happen not to be publicly spirited whistle-blowers, but are instead government officials abusing their power.

Government officials leak sensitive and classified information daily in the policy wars in Washington. Published stories based on such leaks are essential to slowing this country's seemingly inevitable descent into a full-fledged national security state.

Examples like "Plamegate" and Wen Ho Lee seriously threaten valid claims of reporter-source confidentiality. Overlapping reporters and media outlets in these two cases lends credence to those who believe that the weakening of this privilege is a goal of the security fetishists.

This was an excellent RI post, and yes I am a ritual reader and fan. That said, I am curious though why one would choose to mention what Singh heard from DEA sources about Gary Webb's death but not mention Robert Chalmer's piece in the UK Independent (Oct 9, '05) which quotes Webb's ex-wife extensively.

Webb's wife is certainly not adding much fuel to the speculation over Webb's suicide if her words are true and relayed accurately by Chalmers.

Gary Webb was assasinated by the likes of Pincus long before he died by his own hand (or someone else's) last December. I personally believe that is the take home lesson.

Unable to get work from any major US newspaper, he spent the four months before his death writing for * a free-sheet covering the Sacramento area. To pay off his mounting debts, Webb sold the Carmichael property, where he was living alone, and arranged to move in with his mother.

When removal men arrived, on the morning of 10 December 2004, they found a sign on his front door, which read: ''Please do not enter. Call 911 for assistance. Thank you." Webb's corpse was found in the bedroom, with two gunshot wounds to the head.

When I first heard the news, I tell Bell, I was inclined to believe the conspiracy theories that still proliferate on the internet, suggesting that Webb had been assassinated - either by one of the drug dealers he'd met while writing Dark Alliance, or by the intelligence services who were supposed to police them.

She shakes her head.

"Looking back," she says, "I think Gary had been obsessed with suicide for some time. And when he got something in his head, he was determined to do it. That was just the way he was."

Webb, Bell explains, had written four letters explaining what he was about to do - one to her, one to each of their three children - and mailed them immediately before he killed himself.

"Why were there two bullet wounds?"

His former wife, her voice lowered to a whisper, explains that Webb missed with the first shot (which exited through his left cheek).

"The second bullet," adds Bell, who has worked for more than 20 years in the area of respiratory therapy, "struck his carotid artery."

. . .

With hindsight, Bell says, "the signs were there. One time he called me and he said: 'I have this plan that will benefit us both.' I realise now he was thinking about suicide."

On the last day Webb was alive, his motorbike broke down while he was moving to his mother's house. A passing motorist - a heavily tattooed young man - gave him a lift home, then returned and stole the motorcycle, which police recovered from him three days after Webb's death.

"It sounds crazy," says Bell, "but having his motorbike stolen was the last straw. He was so depressed. It was just more than he could take."

Webb came home and put his belongings in order, dropping his Kentucky Post poster in the bin. He placed his keys and ID cards on the kitchen table, together with a cremation certificate he had purchased for himself. He went into the bedroom, and picked up a .38 that had belonged to his father. When his body was found, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was on the DVD machine, and his favourite CD, Ian Hunter's live album Welcome to the Club, was in the CD player. His death was especially traumatic to the family since - as the coroner said - it could not be established whether he died instantly, or bled to death.

His corpse was discovered on the seventh anniversary of his resignation from the Mercury News. "Do you think that a part of him did this out of revenge?" I ask Bell. "To get back at his editors?"

That is an on-target summation. The very moment I heard what Woodward intends to throw into the ring to quell the situation known as Plamegate, was the moment that I knew for sure that the PTB do not intend to allow their assault upon humanity to be interupted under any circumstance at all.

There's gonna have to be an awesome rebellion to topple the evil cabal that has hi-jacked this country. How do I sign up?

Good reminder about Woodward. That dude has given me the creeps for years and years -- is there anything he *wasn't* in on? -- and it is pathetic that the Robert Redford hero version is what most young journalists believed back when I worked in the field. That was in the 1980s.

(I was never going to be a good little journalist, as my childhood inspiration was Kolchak in "The Night Stalker," not Woodstein in the Watergate movie. Being treated like Kolchak is not quite as fun in real life as it appears on the screen ... Gary Webb learned this all too well.)

Anyway, a correction regarding the newspaper business. At least in the U.S., newspapers are insanely profitable. Newspaper chains routinely make 25% profits and stockholders are always demanding more. (A supermarket, in comparison, is lucky to make 2% profits.) It's a big business and it's a money farm, not a money sink.

(Exceptions include the New York Post, which was a money pit through multiple owners of "both" political stripes in the 70s-80s-90s-00s and probably still is. It is the only charity venture in Murdoch's multimedia empire.)

Also, newspapers actually have very little influence. The Bush Administration has proven this. Rove looked at the media landscape and decided to instead deal with things like pre-packaged tv segments for local stations, Fox News, etc. No administration has done a better job of ignoring newspapers, especially the "serious broadsheets." Hell, why bother? If you want something in the NYT or WaPo, just use your agents Judith Miller or Bob Woodward.

Network television news is costly, and the big three in America lost money on the news for decades. The idea of an independent news department within a TV network really took hold during the Vietnam era, and the prestige of a powerful evening newscast was considered important to a network's reputation at the time. That era is gone now, and good riddance. For every worthwhile thing done by network news -- such as finally smashing the fiction of the Vietnam War with nightly film of the horror -- there has been a hundred deliberate deceptions handed down from *someone* to Cronkite or whoever.

(Jeff will surely be familiar with Cronkite's silencing of credible UFO proponents in the 50s ... I believe the story is in that "Missing Times" book, but I can't recall the details.)

Network news budgets have since been slashed, and the day of the highly paid anchorman / editor is gone forever, and the last stuff I've read on the subject had the networks either making money or breaking even on the night news crapfest.

On Gary Webb's suicide, laughably, why trust or even care what Ruppert thinks about it? What is interesting is that he takes ownership of the whole thing despite having little connection to the suicide. He's just a civilian?! (Or is he...) Ruppert is hardly necessary here at all.

It's not like Ruppert is a completely authoritative source ---he left out the most interesting war games (NATO's) that were occuring on 9-11 out of his book, and he left out the easy stuff (like the controlled demolitions, etc.). Ruppert likes to insult others who challenge him. That doesn't make him an authority, only a rough operator. He's been wrong on 9-11 through selective attribution, and he has been wrong on selling peak oil (since oil is abiotic).

flame off.

Back to Woodward.

Others may be interested in the real Nixon story, you know the kind that ended up on the cutting room floor when they were making the brainwashing film for the masses about Watergate.

So, below, would the real Woodward, please stand up:

You should know that at the time of the Second World War, Watergate 'reporter' Bob Woodward's father was a top official of both Army Intelligence and Naval Intelligence. Savvy folks recognize that as being actually a top officer of OSS, precursor to the America Central Intelligence Agency.

This elder family member later became Chief Judge Woodward http://www.dcba.org/brief/febissue/1998/feature.htm in the Chicago area. http://www.skolnicksreport.com/lategd.html

Bob Woodward was the son of Du Page County Chief Judge Alfred Woodward. [Du Page is the county adjoining Cook County, site of Chicago.] It was strange to find out that Alfred Woodward had a long history of espionage, being an operative of BOTH Army and Naval Intelligence [supposedly that does not happen]. http://www.skolnicksreport.com/ootar39.html

Little-known, that Du Page County Chief Judge Alfred Woodward, in an unpublicized case, arbitrarily awarded millions and millions of dollars from an insurance fraud case to Nixon White House Watergate figures (the little-mentioned Equity Funding case of the 1970s---we have the files to prove it. And more, Chief Judge Woodward, like his son Bob, was a key figure in the espionage Establishment).

so, up to the present, commentary on recent interposition of Woodward, looks familar to his 1970s antics:http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/328928.shtml

and comment on him interposing himself in just such a similar way in Watergate in the 1970s:

state terror hit on the WTCs: a 35+ year plan, Woodward family backs up the Establishment's projects

WOODWARD, Pentagon plant, a representative of people to remove Nixon: Why? "THE 25TH AMEND. TRICK"

THE 25TH AMENDMENT TRICK--USED IN TWO ATTEMPTS TO GET TO THE PRESIDENCY WITHOUT ANY ELECTION

--which Woodward seems to have been a willing accomplice in getting the Rockefeller operation done...

THE 25TH AMENDMENT TRICK--USED IN TWO ATTEMPTS TO GET TO THE PRESIDENCY WITHOUT ANY ELECTION

Queuing up to appoint President Nelson Rockefeller, via a SLOW COUP of appointments and assassinations, a technique that Bush has learned from well it seems. In 1973: plan was to remove VP Agnew first, appoint a crony, then remove Nixon next (suitably bribed), thus, having both appointed Pres & VP as appointees, after the JFK assassination; then kill off the Pres. appointeee (Ford, who had appointed Nelson as VP). However, Ford survived 3 assassination attempts--messing the queueing all up. Did the Nelson Rockefeller scheme die with him, in 1979, after he basically appointed the whole administration of Trilaterals to Jimmy Carter's administration as a consolation prize to his failes slow coup? Or did it live on in the attempt to remove Gore in 1998? and then in Gore assassination attempts in 2000? (As reported in the Chicago Tribune, only the print edition--when THREE SEPARATE planes were routed into Gores Air Force Two airspace, while, illegally, Secret Service were conspiciously absent from their required stations in the Chicago airport control tower..) And note the earlier attempts to vacate Cheney without vacating Bush? Something to keep in mind: this would be an entirely legal coup. Watch out.

I work in the industry at a newspaper. Just some basic perspective for you: Newspaper (most of them) are in for the profit!There is more of a drive to making money than you might think, but there isn't anything necessarily wrong with that. I would agree certain large metros are used extensively as propaganda tools. Its pretty damn obvious unless your dense. And, some of those profit loving papers are willing or unknowning dupes.Bias is RAMPANT and almost impossible to get detached from. Humans are messy creatures with values and beliefs systmes creep into all walks of life, including writing and reporting.

Yeah, don't count on any corporate journalist or newspaper to save your ass or help protect our liberties. It makes for good news to hear that local authrities just got that new grant money from HoMyBoy Sec. so they can buy anti-terrorizm gear. Then they can start busting all those local al qaeda memebers who lurk in bushes with their suitkase booombas.

I work in the industry at a newspaper. Just some basic perspective for you: Newspaper (most of them) are in for the profit!There is more of a drive to making money than you might think, but there isn't anything necessarily wrong with that. I would agree certain large metros are used extensively as propaganda tools. Its pretty damn obvious unless your dense. And, some of those profit loving papers are willing or unknowning dupes.Bias is RAMPANT and almost impossible to get detached from. Humans are messy creatures with values and beliefs systmes creep into all walks of life, including writing and reporting.

Yeah, don't count on any corporate journalist or newspaper to save your ass or help protect our liberties. It makes for good news to hear that local authrities just got that new grant money from HoMyBoy Sec. so they can buy anti-terrorizm gear. Then they can start busting all those local al qaeda memebers who lurk in bushes with their suitkase booombas.

At least Old Gary had the nerve to use an identifiable name, unlike the rightwingnut shills herein self-designated as 'anonymous.

Old Gary's web site says:

"Thank God Cindy Sheehan has disappeared from the evening news.

Thank God the liberals didn’t get Karl Rove.

Thank God that Scooter is nothing more than a serial gossip."

Old Gary's not ezackly objective, eh?

As for the crap about the various suicides, one highly convenient suicide of someone known for their unrelented enmity to BushCo....possible. Two suicides...unlikely but not outside the realm of change. Three--for-fuckin'-geddaboudit.

Thanks, Jeff, for exposing not only Woodward but Pincus, Posner, and Epstein--whores all.

One thing I would add, however. When you make a deal with the Devil, you never really win, he does. When Woodward was allowed to sit up there at the top of his profession in exchange for printing what he was told to print, he knew that one day, he could be called to fall on his sword for The Cause.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, who isn't already a BushCo toady is going to fall for Woodward's 'bombshell.' Patrick Fitzgerald sure as hell isn't. Check out some of the articles I posted on the message board, which are only a fraction of the hooting, catcalling reaction from the blogosphere.

Woodward's day-late-dollar-short 'revelation' was a Hail Mary pass which unfortunately for Scooterpie can be marked "incomplete." It just makes the whole thing look MORE shady and screwy. Woodward's destroyed himself, gained nothing, and left his masters' asses hanging even forther out in the breeze than before he opened his cakehole.

I'm a working journalist (fewer of us these days) and I am increasingly disgusted with my peers. Miller-Woodward-Milbank, etc., etc. they're all insiders who are wined and dined by the elite and have no desire of digging up the truth. I've always heard that Woodward downplays every big scandal mainly because he doesn't want anything to overshadow his Watergate coverage. To that, I say "Take a hike, pal!"

Outstanding commentary Jeff, and one thousand thanks to Anonymous for the startling links to Woodwards filial blackworld connects. Spooky.

The nazification of America continues unabated. Your also excellent post a few days ago on the Trickster archetype and the mangling and shapeshifting of truth is creepily come to light here with the Woodward 'confession'.

We know that certain vaunted saints in the socalled MSM (Miller, Woodward, Pincus et. al.) are stooges for a certain nefarious element of the government. They are in fact information warriors, working in concert with PR firms like the Rendon Group on information domination, perception management, and other disinformation operations pimping the gospel according to Fox myths, fictions, and partisan parables to mesmerize and conform the 'sheeple" into mindlessly allowing the "olympians', the neo-fascists in the Bush government to devolve America into a totalitarian dictatorship.

These disinformation, propaganda and slime coverns and operations perform three basic informationwarfare functions; 1)cloaking the actual facts through obfuscation, misdirection or selective non-disclosure.

2) Exalting, propagandazing, proselyizing the policies, designs, ambitions and glorious expliots and godly charactoristics of certain elements or individuals in the government.

3) Sliming, demonizing, dismissing, silencing, or suppressing any and every voice of opposition, alternate opinion, dissent or challenge to said elements or individuals in the Bush government.

America is doomed. We swim in an ocean of lies. Our socalled leaders are ruthless warmongers, profiteers, fascists, supremists, and perverts wantonly betraying the public trust and engorging the off sheet accounts of cronies and oligarchs in, or beholden to the Bush crime family oligarchs.

The socalled MSM are complicit parrots who have abrogated and betrayed their duties as journalists and are either directly on the Bush government payroll, (Gannon, Woodward, Miller etc.) - or wantonly craven in the desire for access to the WH press room, embedded rides on Humvee's, oppulent state dinners, or seats on Air Force One or Two and paint the government. These sloganeers, propagandists, and disinformation warriors robopathically advance, support, and exalt the Bush government's Pax Americana new world order and the "economy of terror".

The only hope for salvaging what little remains of our once more perfect union is to follow Voltaire's grim cry and - "stangle the last king with the entrails of the last priest".

Hey Jeff,I've immensely enjoyed your last few posts. When things on RI veer off into satanists, evil clowns and UFO's it really bugs me. But thats only because you have actively challenged my hard-wired Amerikkkan public school belief system.

Just for sheer convenience, would it be possible to get together a reading list section on the discussion board?

Thanks for your dedication to truth in these foggy, violent times.John from Kansas City

Has anyone ever considered that the whole point of the Fitzgerald inquiries is to provide a diversion and a semblance that the stytem still works? I mean seriously, the elections in this country have as much legitimacy as Soviet elections did thanks to electronic voting without paper trails. Congress refuses to uphold the Constitution and keep the executive in check, and the supreme Court now legislates new government powers by fiat.

People who put all their hopes into the Fitzgerald basket are in for a rude awakening. Fitzgerald had a hand in 'sanitizing' the investigation of flight 800. Also, waiting for new indictments that may or may not come prevents people from organizing a grass roots movement to impeach all the criminals in DC, because again, the system may still be working.

We have to roll back the clock for 21 years to when Bob Woodward was allowed to make copies of the legal briefs associated with the following case noted in the URL below. He "spiked" this story also. But first, a thought for the day.

The Bush Administration either hand picked or created "intelligence" to justify the preemptive attack on a sovereign nation, Iraq.This is equal to a prosecution presenting fabricated "evidence" to compel a jury to convict a defendant.In the legal case, when the newly found evidence, sometimes classified as "fraud on the court" is presented to the appealate review panel, the original charge is either dismissed or a new trial is ordered, depending on the potential for a new conviction.In the political case for justifying a preemptive war through imminent threat of attack, when it becomes abundantly clear that the "evidence" to justify the attack was fabricated, skewed or otherwise "created" to further the justification for a preemptive attack, all military hostility should immediately cease and forces withdrawn from the violated country.In the legal case, the falsely accused and incarcerated must be compensated and those responsible for all associated crimes should be held criminally libel.In the Political case, the offending aggressor nation must repair and repatriate all victims and property affected by crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.John McCarthyhttp://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com

If you listen to the three chilling recordings of Indira Singh, Anonymous (and every American should) - she makes exactly that claim against Mr Fitzgerald and points out that he is trotted out to prosecute (or actually provide cover for) all the major US terrorist cases in the last decade.

She suggests that perhaps a few underlings will fall under the current investigation on relatively minor deflective charges, but that nothing significant will result from Mr Fitzgeralds' investigation because the tentacles of the affair originate at the very top of the Bush government.

Futher, and there a good deal of support (Wayne Madsen Report) for her claim that the revenge outing of Valerie Plame "took down' a WMD search team, (Brewster Jennings Associates) who happened to get to close the financial ties and machinations directly involving the Bush crime family cabals, and that there are bodies in the wake.

"Just for sheer convenience, would it be possible to get together a reading list section on the discussion board?"

It's a good idea, and I've been asked for it before. I mean to add one to the sidebar of the blog. In the meantime, here's one I was asked to compile for a UK Bill Hick's tribute site last Spring. (The links are to Amazon.UK.)

Because I don't want to be misrepresented, I need to say it's been edited by the webmasters, so not all of the books are my choices and a lot of the wording isn't mine. For instance, I didn't recommend McKenna's Food of the Gods, because I haven't read it, and so I didn't write "Drugs helped us evolve." Also I didn't add "Still, you've got to laugh" to "It goes deeper and gets darker than we like to think" under the "Mind Control" section.

Personally I doubt Woodward’s disclosure was even true. It sounds like it was cooked up by Joe DiGenova and by his enthusiasm you’d have thought he just destroyed Fitzgerald. DiGenova came out VERY soon after the Woodward story broke with all barrells firing (he was really prepared, too well) about how this Woodward disclosure destroyed Fitzgerald’s case and the man too.

I too wonder if we can trust Fitzgerald to do his job. However his mere exisence seems to have sparked more healthy discussion than was ever intended, and maybe we can take it from here.

Also I want to point out that Dana Milbank is a Bonesman. So in light of the other spooks already identified, does this entitle the WA Post to the label of “Pravda West”?